Friday, May 23, 2014

Week of May 26

What's Happening This Week.....
*Monday:  No school - Memorial Day.
*Tuesday:  LAST Spelling pretest of 5th grade
*Wednesday:  1st Book Club meeting (have your book & role packet)
*Thursday:  Public Library Visit - Summer Reading Program
*Friday:  LAST Spelling test of 5th grade.  Spirit day - Boys wear blue & Girls wear green

Coming Attractions...
*Unit 5 English Test on Monday, June 2
*Chapter 9 Open-book/Notes S.S. Test on Wednesday, June 4 (no essay questions)
*Last day of Math on Friday, June 6.
*Wear your favorite vacation destination t-shirt on Friday, June 6.
*Bowling Trip on Tuesday, June 10 - In the morning.
*P.T.O. field day & Picnic on Wednesday, June 11.
*Circus Boy Assembly on Wednesday, June 11.
*Last Day of School on Thursday, June 12, 11:00 dismissal.

What's Happening in the Classroom....
Spelling - LAST SPELLING UNIT!!!  This will be our last spelling test of the school year.  All activities need to be in by Friday.  Our test will be on Friday.

English - We will finish our unit on Capitalization and Punctuation this week.  The children will learn about abbreviations and titles.  We will review for the Unit 5 test on Thursday and Friday.  Our Unit 5 Test will be on Monday, June 2.  We will end the year with a short unit on Adverbs.

Reading - The children should be reading their first section of their book club novel.  Their first discussion will be on Wednesday.  Students should come prepared with their book and packet (with activity completed).  Our 2nd meeting will be on Tuesday, June 3. and our third (and final meeting) will be on Monday, June 9.  The children will share their PhotoStory projects this week.  We will also start one final tech project using Glogster.

Science - The children have been doing a wonderful job on their Solar System PhotoPeach projects.  We will be sharing these projects this week.  If your child's project is not done, I will allow them to use their silent reading time to complete the project.  If they need more time, they will need to do some work at home. Each child has a username and password.

Social Studies - We will finish chapter 9, lesson 3 this week.  The children will be taking notes each day.  Please have them review their notes.  We will have a lesson 3 review on Monday, June 2 and an open-book/notes test on Wednesday, June 4.  This test will not have any essay questions (multiple choice & fill in the blank).  We will spend the last week of school focused on The Constitution.

Mrs. Sulima's Math Class:
Monday - No school, Memorial Day. 
Tuesday - Relating Customary and Metric Units.
Wednesday - Computing with Customary Units.
Thursday - Fun with Algebra
Friday -  Fun with Algebra
**We will spend the week of June 2 on Algebra & reviewing tricky concepts.**